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Thanks But....

Cool tool, I'll check it out. Guess, I should explain myself a little better. I'm trying to create my own "auto" audit CD for teaching myself more. I kinda know what I wanna do, but still need to figure out how to do things.

The first thing I wanted to do was to make a bootable cd (done)
Second thing I wanted was to make the cd scan to see what live IP's are out there and put into a text file (currently working on).

Command line tools are best, since it will need to be scriptable. Thats why I wanna figure out the best way to find all live subnets first. (kinda funny to have it scan the entire class C, if I only have 3 or 4 boxes on my test network).

Unless you have setup your switches to block it, you could probably get them by pinging the network or broadcast address...

/nebulus

There is only one constant, one universal, it is the only real truth: causality. Action. Reaction. Cause and effect...There is no escape from it, we are forever slaves to it. Our only hope, our only peace is to understand it, to understand the 'why'. 'Why' is what separates us from them, you from me. 'Why' is the only real social power, without it you are powerless.

Pinging broadcast address

Nebulus-

I had thought of that, something like pinging all the xxx.xxx.xxx.255 addresses. However, how would you do that. Lets say I pinged a 192.168.0.255 address. Would that broadcast it to the entire 192.168.0.xxx address and return the response to my IP address?

Re: Pinging broadcast address

I had thought of that, something like pinging all the xxx.xxx.xxx.255 addresses. However, how would you do that. Lets say I pinged a 192.168.0.255 address. Would that broadcast it to the entire 192.168.0.xxx address and return the response to my IP address?

Depends a little on your setup, but yes. .255 means every computer on the network (C level)...technically so does .0 ...

/nebulus

There is only one constant, one universal, it is the only real truth: causality. Action. Reaction. Cause and effect...There is no escape from it, we are forever slaves to it. Our only hope, our only peace is to understand it, to understand the 'why'. 'Why' is what separates us from them, you from me. 'Why' is the only real social power, without it you are powerless.